The Metropolitan Plan, Prague’s new master plan, is moving on to the environmental assessment phase. In the second half of the year, it should finally face public examination. The process may take a few years, according to the spokesman for Prague’s Institute of Planning and Development (IPR). Developers are eagerly awaiting the new plan, which will allow them to capitalize on their landbank. The Metropolitan Plan should have been completed in 2015 but now is not expected to be finalized until 2020 or 2022. Work hit a roadblock in September when Prague’s deputy mayor for planning, Petra Kolínská, forced the IPR head, Petr Hlaváček, to resign, because he refused to fire architect Roman Koucký, who was overseeing the Metropolitan Plan. The entire IPR team also resigned. The new IPR head, Ondřej Boháč, reappointed Koucký as head of the Metropolitan Plan team after he won a tender.
